Mediation Tips please?

You cannot control love, or your emotions. They can only be controlled to a certain extent. Just meditate a little bit everyday, and gradually you will get better at it. You will learn to clear your mind, and find peace, and control over yourself and your energies. You will learn emotional control in time, but you also need to learn patience, for nothing will come without patience.

An adept at the art of meditation can achieve great control over raw emotions. But how to meditate?

Let - don't try - your thoughts shut-up. Stop talking to yourself. Your doing it right now and so am I.

This is this and that is that - think worry plan muse voice in the head give it a rest.

Easy to say. Try to do not as easy to say.

Personal Meditation Tips

I would like to share a few personal tips about
meditation. This is not from a book, but from my own personal experiences. There are no time limits with this method. You just do it as long or as short as you want to:

First, I sit down is a comfortable position in a
quiet, calm place. I usually close my eyes and relax. I like to meditate in the dark because it works best for me. I try to breath in a slow, relaxed manner.

The first stage of meditation is what I call \"wool
gathering\". It means that the mind is free to go from thought to thought. I usually let the mind go ahead and do this for awhile. It’s a natural process and it helps the mind to slow down. Some people try to restrict this 'wool gathering' process, but I think it’s better to let the mind 'un-wind' in this way.

If some attachments (people or things) keep coming to my thoughts I use the \"Big Box\" method. Here is how: You think of a big black box sitting in front of you and outside of you, and you open the lid and put the distracting person or thing in the big box and then close the lid on them. The box is sound proof too so you can't hear or see them once they are in the box. You can put a whole group of people in the box if necessary. When I put people in the box, I always try to do it in a very loving and gentle way.

So by now all the distracting thoughts are either in the 'big box' or the mind is finally slowing down and getting tired of all that wool gathering.

Now I’m at the second stage. There are no more
wandering thoughts, no more distractions, and your
mind is calm. I usually feel a lot of inner peace and love at this stage. This is the calm that you want. It’s refreshing and soothing. This is the calm and peace that is necessary in order to re-connect with the inner Force.

If I may... I believe beginning with breathing is most important. Get it to where you can control your body including heart rate and then you will have physical control.

From there you can learn your own \"working meditation\" or \"light meditation\" that you can use during the day or even during conversations.

It tends to keep you calm and your mind from being carried away by negative emotions in a pinch.

The others also had excellent suggestions!

Begin with mastering breathing, heart rate, and the rest can be called upon and practiced.

- Asta Sophi